Compatible with everybody's favorite building blocks, this customizable drone is especially appealing to youngsters who need a fun leg up on STEM education. But it's nimble enough for serious flying, with auto-stabilization and a 6-axis gyro. Originally $49.99, it was sale priced at $42.99 and just dropped down to a full 20% off. Pick up the Force Flyers DIY Building Block Drone for $39.99.

Light-years more accurate than the stormtrooper it resembles, this themed vacuum relies on Visionary Mapping™ technology and a FullView Sensor™ to safely navigate any room. And with 20 times the suction of the prior model, this POWERbot will make short work of any dust bunny rebellion lurking in your carpet. The Samsung POWERbot Star Wars Robot Vacuum is currently $349.99 - a recent drop off the already sale-priced $372.

Here's one piece of tech anyone can use, regardless of their nerd quotient. This sleeve keeps your keys organized, and tags them using the Tile™ app to alert your phone so they never get lost again. It attaches to any key fob, and can even work in reverse to find your phone by using the keys to ring it. The KeySmart Pro with Tile Smart Location is 33% off at $39.99, but you can take an additional 20% with the code BFSAVE20.

Invaluable for designers or new homebuyers, this is CNET's top recommended paint matching tool. Just hold it up to any surface and it can match the exact color to paint shades from leading brands like Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore. Fits comfortably on a keychain, and it can store your shades for years on the accompanying app, knocking untold stress off your next paint job. The Nix Mini Color Sensor is already 30% off at $69, but the BFSAVE20 code will knock an additional 20% off.

A remarkable easter egg from the Windows 95 era, fully anticipating what became of the world’s most beautiful operating system. The developers of Office 95 left an interesting little easteregg with a name which does seem a little unsettling. I am exploring this easteregg and showing it in this video.

Use a single password for every website, and you’re compromising your security. Use a different one each time, and you’re bound to lose track of them. The solution? RoboForm Everywhere, a catch-all tool that will not only manage the passwords on every site you visit but generate better ones. As a simple password database, it’s […]

Just a reminder: Print isn’t dead. And now that printers are becoming as portable as cell phones, it might be around for quite some time. Enter the MEMOBIRD Mobile Thermal Printer, a mini-printer that is versatile, portable – and most importantly, never needs a refill on ink or toner. Measuring just a few inches around, […]

What do Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google all have in common? Somewhere in their framework, they all use MySQL, that most versatile (and free!) of database management systems. And they’re not alone. If your company or the one you’d like to work for wrangles data (and who doesn’t?), they’re going to need someone with a […]